This single, amazing paragraph from the statement of the ADL, the premier Jewish civil rights organization, has already been widely mocked for its apparent animosity towards logic:

Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong. But ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain —unnecessarily — and that is not right.

So they have every right to build there and may even have a "positive message about Islam" to send, by showing that the United States does not lump all Muslims in with Al Qaeda. "Some" opponents may be bigoted enough to believe that a Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero is offensive, because Muslims = 9/11. Well, the bigots should win anyway! Productive day at the office, ADL.

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich, who's raising a good chunk of cash off of this whole anti-"Ground Zero Mosque" movement, tells Salon that building a mosque near Ground Zero "would be like putting a statue of Mussolini or Marx at Arlington National Cemetery."